Show USE DOGS TO BAIT BRITONS I I Beasts Schooled in Savagery Taught to Prey on Their Prison Prisoners rs in Camp I I By Special l News Service NEW V YORK Sept 10 10 British British people people people peo peo- have not lived in Germany and seen the police poUce watchdogs at work worle will perhaps not appreciate to the full tull this latest cruelty that has been practiced I against their soldiers Their British love of dogs and their trust in doggy I decency may mislead them into imagining imagining imagining im- im a baiting by dogs as just a adeal adeal adeal deal of or barking with an excited snap or two such as might be expected from normal British dogs But the German police dog which has now been called in to do war work and guard British prisoners is not this innocent sort of ot animal No comfortable fellow he who likes to lay paw on fender an and head on paw and go to sleep with a human foot against his ribs He is a blood and iron dog a Bernhardt beast schooled in savagery and violence violence violence vio vio- lence till he has become the dog counterpart counterpart counterpart coun coun- of his brute master the German German German Ger Ger- man or policeman who controls him He is usually a mastiff He wears as the sign of his office of ot police dog doga a brass collar two inches broad and studded thickly with spikes an inch and a halt half long He responds to no kindness Stroke his head and you he hear r a fearsome growl continue and you stand a chance of ot being bitten for he is trained to resent kindness He respects the boo too toe and the sword flat of his brute master and obeys or orders orders orders or- or ders received from him but to all other people he is just a a. savage and kindness kindness kindness kind kind- ness finds no place in his understand understand- ing Sometimes you see him by day trotting sulkily along behind his master master mas mas- ter but more often it is at night and especially in the country districts where there are large and lonely areas to to be patrolled A PRUSSIAN ADVENTURE One night in June years ago I was walking through the pines on the hill called near Hirschberg in Prussia I knew nothing of ot police dogs then Suddenly through the trees darted a great beast whose shining brass collar and spikes glinted In the moonlight He made straight at me till two yards away and then he stopped dead and uttered about four deep bays I moved to the right to pass around him He stood in front of ot me again growled and lowered his shoulders as though to spring I moved movell to the left He let me get as far tar as the wire fence that fringed the path and then he set me If It I moved hand or foot he growled and bared his teeth and his hackle bristled on his back When I was still he was still watching me with head low down over forepaws far and ready for a a. spring THE BEASTS BEAST'S MASTER There he kept me for quite ten minutes minutes minutes min min- I utes In terror tenor wondering what sort of ot mad beast I had to deal with I had no I stick nor weapon and that dog in two minutes could have killed a man for he ho was as tall as a table with great muscles on his chest and back A with sword and glittering glittering glittering glit glit- helmet camo came along the path While the dog still poised in front of mo me mo he ho asked me questions questions gruffly gruffly rudely Where did I live what was my business and the rest of ot it But for that dog I should have told him more than he ho wanted to hear Then almost grudgingly and without a word of apology he called off the dog and they left me To me me fresh from England the savagery savagery savagery sav sav- I agery of that couple was a new thing It seemed to me that the man was ac actually actually actually ac- ac angry that he had no excuse for showing what he and his dog could do against me I pitied the luckless individual in individual in in- who gave this ghoul of the any excuse or pretext for tor violence BULLIES ALWAYS And And that is what makes me grieve the more for our po poor r lads who are arenow arenow arenow now ners in the hands of Germany Germany Ger Ger- many mallY watched over by police dogs For Eor the authorities would never have havo put these dogs to guard the prisoners' prisoners I camps without putting also alo their masters masters masters mas mas- to the same sarno task for with other masters the dogs would be useless It means that our men are at the mercies mercies' lot of the German a soured soured and savage individual hated even by byli li Germans themselves who will tolerate much at tho the hands of or officialdom I These policemen are are all old petty of officers officers' officers officers' or- or ficera of ot the German army who have failed to advance beyond a n certain stage They bring to their work all the savage brutality of ot the tho German petty officer and an added sourness of dIsposition due no doubt to their limited limited limited lim lim- army attainments They are aro bullies both by training and by tion |